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fix(dash-spv): detect forks with a full block locator - #1398
The client asked for headers with a locator holding only its tip. A peer that did not know that tip, because the network replaced it, answered from genesis with headers the client already stored, so no fork was detected and the client retried the same request forever, which also blocked masternode sync. This happened to a client restarted on a replaced tip, and to a running client when the peer announced a reorg by inv.
Header requests and the tip announcement to new peers now send a locator with the stored ancestors of the tip, so a peer that does not know the tip answers from the fork point, where the existing fork detection finds it. Every fork drops the stored chain down to the best ChainLock, or to the newest checkpoint the tip reaches without one, since those blocks are final.
Dropping the chain down to genesis exposed a second bug: the filter header sync took a stored genesis filter header for an empty storage and restarted at height 0, which panics in debug builds. The sync now starts above the stored tip.
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Bug Fixes
Improved chain reorganization handling so synchronization follows replacement chains, including changes that occur while the client is stopped, and reports truncation at the correct height.
Updated fork handling to respect the latest ChainLock or checkpoint height.
Fixed filter-header synchronization when starting without previously stored headers, including at height zero.
Improved header requests to include ancestor information, helping synchronization identify replacement chains announced by peers.
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dash-spv/src/sync/block_headers/manager.rs
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Walkthrough
Block-header synchronization now builds multi-hash locators and applies a combined ChainLock and checkpoint fork floor. Filter-header startup distinguishes an absent tip from a stored tip at height zero. Tests cover chain truncation, restart after a tip replacement, and an announced alternative branch.
Changes: Sync reorg recovery
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Build and propagate block locators dash-spv/src/network/mod.rs, dash-spv/src/sync/block_headers/*
HeadersRequest accepts multiple locator hashes. Header segments and peer announcements include the tip followed by ancestor hashes. The manager collects ancestors with increasing step sizes and refreshes pipeline tip ancestors after storing forward batches.
Select fork height and test reorg sync dash-spv/src/sync/block_headers/manager.rs, dash-spv/tests/dashd_sync/tests_fork.rs
Fork handling uses the greater of the best ChainLock height and newest reached checkpoint as its final height. Tests update fork and truncation expectations, and verify sync after a stopped client’s tip is replaced and after a peer announces an alternative branch.
Start filter-header downloads from stored tip dash-spv/src/sync/filter_headers/manager.rs
Download startup starts at the header start height when no filter tip exists, or at the greater of the stored tip plus one and the header start height. Checkpoint tracking now requires a positive start height and no stored tip.
sequenceDiagram
participant SyncManager
participant HeadersManager
participant Pipeline
participant SegmentState
participant Peer
SyncManager->>HeadersManager: Retrieve locator ancestors
HeadersManager->>Pipeline: Initialize with tip and ancestors
Pipeline->>SegmentState: Assign ancestor hashes
SegmentState->>Peer: Send GetHeaders locator
SyncManager->>Peer: Announce tip with ancestor locator
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dashpay/rust-dashcore#902: Reworks the same header request path and changes the segment and pipeline request interfaces.
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Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review cf47d
Recovery from a deep fork can stall without progress when the fork point falls between widely spaced locator entries. That is the stale-tip scenario this PR targets, so it should be fixed or consciously accepted before merge. The other two issues are narrow: a rare storage-error path that can drop one header event, and a test that may not exercise the announced-branch path.
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The title names a fix in dash-spv and describes detecting forks using a full block locator. The changeset builds a multi-entry locator (tip plus ancestors via locator_ancestors, stepping back and doub…
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[#1397] Met. filter_headers/manager.rs starts filter-header sync from the Option returned by get_filter_tip_height. None starts at header_start_height. Some(n) starts at max(n+1, header_start_height).…
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All changed files connect to #986 or #1397. locator_ancestors, fork_height, and the set_tip_ancestors calls in block_headers/manager.rs implement the #986 locator and rollback behavior. The HeadersReq…
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The title names a fix in dash-spv and describes detecting forks using a full block locator. The changeset builds a multi-entry locator (tip plus ancestors via locator_ancestors, stepping back and doubling) and treats genesis responses as forks with rollback to a ChainLock or checkpoint. The title covers the main header-sync change. It does not mention the filter-header start-height fix or the stop-at-genesis fork handling, but those are secondary aspects. The title is specific, concise, and free of vague terms.
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[#1397] Met. filter_headers/manager.rs starts filter-header sync from the Option returned by get_filter_tip_height. None starts at header_start_height. Some(n) starts at max(n+1, header_start_height). A stored genesis filter header (Some(0)) no longer restarts at height 0. Checkpoint tracking runs only when the tip is None. No dashd integration run is recorded for this change.
[#986] Met, with one design difference. The previous review failed this because no multi-entry locator or common-ancestor step existed. The current head adds BlockHeadersManager::locator_ancestors in block_headers/manager.rs. It collects stored hashes below the tip, one block apart for ten entries, then at doubling steps down to the stored start. The result feeds SegmentState locators through HeadersPipeline::init and set_tip_ancestors, and the GetHeaders tip announcement in sync_manager.rs. A peer can therefore match a stale tip to a stored ancestor, which addresses the locator requirement. fork_height now drops the stored chain to final_height, the higher of the best ChainLock and the newest checkpoint reached by the tip, and returns that height for rollback. The stale tip is removed, so the retry loop stops. The client does not compute the common ancestor itself. It rolls back to final_height and re-downloads the replacement branch above it. The issue text allows rollback 'as required', so this design meets the rollback requirement. Replacement headers are validated by the existing pipeline path. I did not re-read that path in this review, so this check relies on the existing code and the new tests in tests_fork.rs.
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All changed files connect to #986 or #1397. locator_ancestors, fork_height, and the set_tip_ancestors calls in block_headers/manager.rs implement the #986 locator and rollback behavior. The HeadersRequest locator type change in network/mod.rs, the init signature change and set_tip_ancestors in pipeline.rs, and the SegmentState ancestor list are required plumbing for the multi-entry locator. The filter_headers/manager.rs change implements the #1397 start-height rule. The test updates in manager.rs match the new final-height return values. tests_fork.rs adds restart and inv-branch reorg tests for #986. No unrelated change was found in the reviewed hunks.
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Kept: "Any peer can force a chain truncation by sending a valid header that builds on genesis" (blocker, high confidence): "blocker. The new branch at dash-spv/src/sync/block_headers/manager.rs:358-359 returns Some(final_height) for any batch whose first header's parent is genesis, as long as final_height < tip. It does not check that the batch answers a request. handle_headers_pipeline at manager.rs:294-298 sends any unmatched non-empty batch, from any peer, to fork_height and emits ForkDetected. handle_fork at dash-spv/src/client/lifecycle.rs:271-278 then stops the client, truncates the wallet and storage, and restarts. Block 1 is public and passes validation against stored genesis. So any connected peer can make every client drop its chain to the last ChainLock or checkpoint, and can do it again after each resync. That is a denial of service from network input that the earlier code did not allow: before, a fork needed a stored parent below the tip, and the headers were validated.
Refutation confirmed: Any peer's headers message reaches handle_headers_pipeline, and a valid block-1 header that matches no pipeline segment makes fork_height return final_height without checking for a pending request. handle_fork then drops the stored chain above that height. Rule checked: A peer can send an unsolicited headers message at any time, so code that treats a header building on genesis as proof of a fork needs to check that the message answers a request we sent."
Kept: "A peer that is just behind the client's tip is taken for a fork" (blocker, medium confidence): "blocker. When synced, the client sends every new peer a single-hash locator vec![*tip.hash()] at dash-spv/src/sync/block_headers/sync_manager.rs:233-236. A peer on the same chain that has not yet received the client's newest block does not have that hash in its active chain. Dash Core then answers from genesis, which is the behaviour the PR itself relies on. That reply is unmatched, and fork_height at dash-spv/src/sync/block_headers/manager.rs:358-359 now returns Some(final_height). handle_fork at dash-spv/src/client/lifecycle.rs:274 then truncates the wallet and storage and restarts sync. Before this PR, the loop skipped the stored headers and returned None. This happens in normal use whenever a lagging peer connects. Without a ChainLock, it truncates down to the last checkpoint, which is genesis on regtest. Checking that the batch answers a request, the fix for finding 1, does not cover this case, so it is a separate defect.
Refutation unsettled: The client code matches the finding. New peers get a locator holding only the tip hash (sync_manager.rs:233-236), and fork_height returns Some(final_height) for any unmatched batch whose first header's parent is genesis, once final_height is below the tip (manager.rs:358-359). Whether a lagging peer replies from genesis depends on Dash Core's code, which is not in this checkout, so I could not check that premise. Rule checked: Bitcoin-derived nodes answer GETHEADERS through FindForkInGlobalIndex, which falls back to the genesis block when no locator hash is in the active chain, and then serve headers starting at the block after genesis.
Premise "Dash Core's GETHEADERS handler serves headers starting after genesis when no locator hash is in its active chain, for example dashpay/dash:src/validation.cpp:185-193 with FindForkInGlobalIndex returning genesis" unsettled. Dash Core's validation.cpp and net_processing.cpp are not in this checkout, so I could not read the genesis fallback in GETHEADERS. The PR's own comment at manager.rs:340-341 assumes this behaviour, but an author comment does not count as proof."
Kept: "Doc comment on fork_height is four lines, above the repository's three-line limit" (nitpick, high confidence): "nitpick. The new doc comment at dash-spv/src/sync/block_headers/manager.rs:338-341 is four lines. Root AGENTS.md sets three lines as the ceiling. This is a comment convention only."
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🔴 Changes requested: 2 blockers.
What blocks: A headers reply whose first header follows genesis now always counts as a fork. An honest peer one block behind, or any peer sending block 1 unprompted, makes the client stop, cut its wallet and header chain back to the last ChainLock or checkpoint, and resync from there, and an attacker can repeat this indefinitely.
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Review comments at @dash-spv/src/sync/block_headers/manager.rs:
- Around line 358-359: Ensure genesis-prefixed headers are validated before they
can produce a fork result when storage starts from a checkpoint. Update the flow
between attach_point, handle_headers_pipeline, and fork_height so
BlockHeaderValidator::validate runs or a validated anchor is required before the
genesis branch returns a fork height; preserve existing checkpoint handling for
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[#986] Implement the common-ancestor step the issue describes. Build a
multi-entry block locator from the stored chain. Find the latest common ancestor
with the peer. Validate the replacement branch headers against the ancestor
before switching or rolling back the stored chain. Alternatively, document with
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The filter header sync read the stored filter tip with `unwrap_or(0)`, so a storage holding only the genesis filter header looked empty. After a fork truncated the chain down to genesis, the sync started at height 0 again and rewrote the stored header, which panics on the `debug_assert` in `Segment::insert`.
The start height now comes from the stored tip as an `Option`: no stored header starts at the header start height, a stored tip `n` at `n + 1`.
The client asked for headers with a locator holding only its tip. A peer that did not know that tip, because the network replaced it, answered from genesis with headers the client already stored, so no fork was detected and the client retried the same request forever. This happened to a client restarted on a replaced tip, and to a running client when the peer announced a reorg by `inv`.
Header requests and the tip announcement to new peers now send a locator with the stored ancestors of the tip, ten one block apart and then twice as far apart each time. A peer that does not know the tip answers from the fork point, where the existing fork detection finds it. The tip segment refreshes the ancestors whenever headers are stored.
Every fork drops the stored chain down to the best ChainLock, or to the newest checkpoint the tip reaches without one, since those blocks are final.
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Kept: "Fork detection has no work comparison, so a peer on a shorter valid branch can trigger truncation" (blocker, medium confidence): "Warning, capped because reachability is not settled.
What the code does.fork_height returns Some(final_height) as soon as the first unknown header has a stored parent with final_height <= parent < tip (manager.rs:389-400). It never compares chain work. handle_fork then drops wallet and storage above that height (lifecycle.rs:274).
What the PR changes. The base code had no work check either, but it only truncated to the fork point. This PR changes the truncation target to final_height, the best ChainLock or else the newest checkpoint (manager.rs:378-380). Without either, that is 0. The PR also sends a full locator to every new peer (sync_manager.rs:229), so a peer on a stale branch now answers from the fork point.
Why it is a warning. A stored ChainLock near the tip closes the window. The code shown does not settle whether a replayed or stale header reaches fork_height outside that case. If it does, a peer can force repeated deep truncation and resync, which is denial of service from outside input.
Refutation confirmed: Any incoming headers message goes to handle_headers_pipeline. The validator checks only each header's own proof of work and difficulty, and the pipeline matches only a segment's current tip hash. A real orphaned header whose parent is a stored block below the tip therefore reaches fork_height, which returns Some(final_height), and handle_fork truncates down to it. Without a saved ChainLock, which never happens with masternodes disabled, final_height is the last checkpoint or 0. Rule checked: A header with valid proof of work whose parent is a stored block below the tip is treated as a fork without comparing the branch's total work against the stored chain, and the stored chain is then dropped down to the best ChainLock or checkpoint height, or 0.
Premise "An unsolicited headers message from a peer, for example a replayed orphaned header whose parent is a stored block between final_height and the tip, passes BlockHeaderValidator and reaches fork_height while the client is synced" confirmed. Unsolicited headers go to handle_headers_pipeline. A stored parent makes attach_point validate the header only for its own proof of work and difficulty. The pipeline matches only a segment's current tip hash, so the header is unmatched and fork_height returns Some(final_height) when the parent is between final_height and the tip.
Premise "In normal operation, final_height sits well below the tip for long periods, for example before masternode sync stores a ChainLock or on networks without ChainLocks, so the window final_height <= parent < tip is reachable" confirmed. A ChainLock is saved only once masternode sync is ready and its signature verifies, and with masternodes disabled no ChainLock manager is built at all. final_height then falls back to the last checkpoint below the tip, a fixed height, or 0 on networks without checkpoints."
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🔴 Changes requested: 1 new blocker.
What blocks: Both earlier blockers are fixed: the genesis shortcut in fork_height is gone, and the full locator lets a lagging peer on the same chain answer with headers the client already stores. One risk remains. Any PoW-valid header whose parent sits between the final height and the tip makes the client drop everything above the best ChainLock or checkpoint and resync. That height is genesis on regtest when no ChainLock is stored. There is no chain-work check before it does so.
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Review comments at @dash-spv/src/sync/block_headers/manager.rs:
- Around line 135-136: Update the block-header response handling around the
`ancestors` step-doubling logic to detect when `fork_height` is `None` because
all returned `headers` are already stored, then continue from the response’s
last header so retries move toward the fork. Preserve normal fork handling and
add a dashd test covering a gap larger than one response.
- Line 451: In store_ready_batches, make the locator_ancestors refresh after
building BlockHeadersStored events best-effort: update the pipeline ancestors on
success, and log the refresh failure without returning early. Preserve and
return the events even when the refresh fails, leaving the previous ancestors
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Review comments at @dash-spv/tests/dashd_sync/tests_fork.rs:
- Around line 212-216: Update the reconnect synchronization in this test so it
drains stale network events and requires a PeerDisconnected event followed by a
new PeerConnected event before calling reconsiderblock. Ensure the connection
wait cannot match the initial connection, preserving the intended inv-path test.
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A failed `locator_ancestors` call after storing headers returned early with `?` and dropped the `BlockHeadersStored` events of headers already stored. The failure is now logged, as for `store_completed_below`.
The reorg test announced by `inv` also waits for the disconnect before the reconnect, so it cannot take the initial `PeerConnected` for the reconnect.
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Kept: "No unit test for locator_ancestors or for the Some(0) filter header start" (suggestion, high confidence): "suggestion. This is missing test coverage, which is never a warning or blocker, even though AGENTS.md asks every fix to carry a regression test. The diff adds no test that stores only the genesis filter header to reach the Some(0) branch at dash-spv/src/sync/filter_headers/manager.rs:286-289. It also adds no test that checks the heights locator_ancestors returns: ten dense entries, then doubling steps, ending at the start height. Today only the dashd fork tests reach these paths."
Kept: "A cheap branch header still makes any peer stop the client, wipe the chain to the final height and restart it" (blocker, high confidence): "blocker, unchanged from the earlier round because the code at this spot did not change. This round only touched the locator refresh error handling. When a peer sends a header that passes validation and whose parent is a stored block at or above final_height and below the tip, fork_height returns Some(final_height) with no work comparison (dash-spv/src/sync/block_headers/manager.rs:389, manager.rs:400). handle_fork then stops the client, truncates wallets and storage to that height and runs again (dash-spv/src/client/lifecycle.rs:271-278). On min-difficulty networks the header is cheap to make: setting its time more than two hours after its parent lowers the required work to pow_limit (dash/src/pow.rs:434). This is a denial of service any network peer can trigger. Because this PR returns final_height instead of the fork point, each trigger also drops much more stored data. The author defers the work check to dash-spv: protect fork recovery against malicious headers #1103, but a deferred security gap keeps its grade.
Refutation confirmed: fork_height returns Some(final_height) for any unstored header whose parent is stored below the tip and at or above final_height, and it compares no chain work. The only check before it is BlockHeaderValidator, which next_work_required lets pass at pow_limit on min-difficulty networks and which never checks the header time against the clock. The ForkDetected event then cancels the sync loop and runs handle_fork, which stops the client, truncates the wallet and storage to final_height (0 with no ... Rule checked: A fork handler that rewinds whenever one header with a valid PoW connects below the tip, with no chain-work comparison, lets any peer that can make such a header trigger the rewind; on networks with pow_allow_min_difficulty_blocks, a timestamp more than 2h after the parent drops the required work to pow_limit."
Kept: "A routine one-block reorg drops every block above the last ChainLock or checkpoint, not just the replaced ones" (suggestion, medium confidence): "suggestion. The behaviour is intended, and the open question is whether it is worth its cost. The PR description says every fork drops the chain to the best ChainLock or the newest reached checkpoint. The updated tests expect exactly that: Some(0) with no ChainLock, and Some(50_000) for a branch off above the checkpoint. The code at dash-spv/src/sync/block_headers/manager.rs:400 does what that describes, and the client syncs the dropped range again, so the end result is correct. The cost is a large re-sync after an ordinary shallow reorg. The fork point parent is already known to be at or above final_height (manager.rs:392). Is there a reason not to return parent and keep final_height only as the floor?"
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dash-spv/src/sync/block_headers/manager.rs:366: Fork detection has no work comparison, so a peer on a shorter valid branch can trigger truncation (view thread)
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These sit on lines an earlier round already reviewed, so none of them block this PR.
Why: The start_download fix for a stored genesis filter header (Some(0)) and the new locator spacing in locator_ancestors have no focused test. Only the dashd fork tests reach them, and those skip when no mining dashd is available. AGENTS.md says: "Every fix comes with a regression test that fails without it." The existing resume test, test_resumed_cfheaders_batch_chains_from_stored_header, covers a tip of 1999 and not Some(0). Nothing checks the locator's ten dense entries, the doubling steps or the inclusion of the lowest stored header.
How to fix it
Add a unit test in filter_headers/manager.rs that stores only the genesis filter header, calls start_sync, and asserts the first request starts at height 1. Add a BlockHeadersManager test that stores a long chain and asserts the exact heights locator_ancestors returns, ending at the start height.
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On the flagged line: Matches on filter_headers_tip with None => header_start_height, Some(n) => (n + 1).max(header_start_height). No test in that file stores a filter tip of…
Defines locator_ancestors. A grep for locator_ancestors finds only the two callers in sync_manager.rs and one in manager.rs, and no test.
✨ A routine one-block reorg drops every block above the last ChainLock or checkpoint, not just the replaced ones Suggestion, not blocking · Performance · Quick fix · dash-spv/src/sync/block_headers/manager.rs:400
Why:fork_height knows the exact fork point (parent) but returns final_height, so the client also wipes headers, filters, masternode state and wallet history that both branches share. A ChainLock is stored only once masternode sync is ready and the signature verifies. Until then final_height is the newest checkpoint below the tip, which on testnet or mainnet can be very far down, so one ordinary stale block can force a large re-sync. The dashd test shows the effect: a one-block reorg truncates to height 0 and drops the funding transaction (vec![(0, 3, true, vec![])]).
How to fix it
Return parent (it is already checked to be at or above final_height) so only the replaced blocks are dropped. Keep final_height only as the floor that refuses deeper forks.
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The client asked for headers with a locator holding only its tip. A peer that did not know that tip, because the network replaced it, answered from genesis with headers the client already stored, so no fork was detected and the client retried the same request forever, which also blocked masternode sync. This happened to a client restarted on a replaced tip, and to a running client when the peer announced a reorg by
inv.Header requests and the tip announcement to new peers now send a locator with the stored ancestors of the tip, so a peer that does not know the tip answers from the fork point, where the existing fork detection finds it. Every fork drops the stored chain down to the best ChainLock, or to the newest checkpoint the tip reaches without one, since those blocks are final.
Dropping the chain down to genesis exposed a second bug: the filter header sync took a stored genesis filter header for an empty storage and restarted at height 0, which panics in debug builds. The sync now starts above the stored tip.
Closes #986
Closes #1397
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